Shoe-polishing machine.



W. C. SCHADE.

SHOE POLISHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED was 14. I916- Patented June 12, 1917.

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SHOE POLISHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14, 1916.

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SHOE POLISHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14. I916- Patented June 12, 1917.

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SHOE POLISHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14. 1915.

Patented June 12, 1917.

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SHOE-POLISHIN G MACHINE.

Application filed June 14, 1916. Serial no. 103,670.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. SoHADE, a *itizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Shoe-Polishing Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to shoe-polishing machines of the automatic type, and the object is to provide a simple and eflicient machine.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of my machine;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section on line 2-2, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on line 3-3, Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation on line 4-4, Fig. 9;

Fig. 5 Fig. 9;

Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on line 6-6, Fig. 2;

Fig. 7 is a face elevation of a brush and mount therefor;

Fig. 8 is a horizontal section on line 8-8, Fig. 2; and

Fig. 9 is a similar section on line 9-9, Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 10 is the base of the machine; 11 is the platform spaced from the base by standards 12. A motor 13 mounted on the base is coupled to a gear 14 which s in rigid connection with a gear 15 mounted to revolve on a stationary shaft 16 which bears in a socket 17 carried by the base 10 and also in the platform 11. The gear 15 has a portion of its toothed periphery cut out to disengage a pinion 18 normally in mesh with said periphery. The motion of the pinion 18 is transmitted to a shaft 19 through a train of gears 20, which shaft bears in the base and platform. The end of the shaft 19 above the platform carries a crank 21 which is connected by a rod 22 to a cross 23 which is revolubly mounted on the shaft 16 above the platform 11.

Each arm of the cross 23 is grooved to receive a slide 24. A cover 25 is provided for the cross which retains the slides in the grooves of the cross. In addition the cover carries an extension 26 constituting an additional guide for each slide. The shaft 16 carries a foot rest 27 above-the cover. A U-shaped bracket 28 is revolubly mounted is a similar view on line 5-5,

on a pin 29 carried by the slide. The pin passes through the middle of the bottom of the U bracket, and the rotation of the bracket on the pin is yieldingly arrested by springs 30 which connect each branch of the bracket to the facing branch of the cross, the said springs normally moving the slides into the cross and therewith the brushes 31 toward the foot rest 27. A triangularshaped brush 31 is mounted to revolve between the branches of the U. The U-shaped bracket 28 for the nose of the foot rest has its trlangular-shaped brush 31 mounted between the arms 32 pivotally connected to the extremities of the branches of the bracket. These arms provide a greater clearance between the nose of the foot rest and the bracket thereat. The swinging of the arm is normally arrested by springs 33 which tend to maintain the arms against stops 34 provided on the branches of the bracket.

Each slide carries a cam 35 engageable by a roller 36 which is carried by a stem 37 rising from a gear 38 revolubly mounted above the platform 11. The engagement of the roller with the cam forces the slide out of the cross against the resistance of the springs connecting the bracket to the cross. Each gear 38 is in mesh with a gear 39. The gears 39 which cooperate with the gears 38 at the ends of the shoe-rest 27 are each constrained to rotate with the shaft 40. The gears 38 which are disposed on the sides of the foot rest 27 are in turn constrained to rotate with shafts 40.

Each shaft 40 carries a pinion 41 ('onstrained to rotate therewith and located between the platform and the base. Each pinion -11 is in mesh with a gear 4:2 revolubly mounted on the shaft 16". The gear 42 is also in mesh with a pinion 4 (see Fig. 4) rigid with a pinion 44, both revuluble with a shaft 45 bearing in the base and platform. The pinion 44 meshes with a gear 46 (see Figs. 3, 4 and 9) and is adapted to engage or mesh with a toothed segment 47, connected rigidly to the gear 15, when the gear 15 is out of mesh with the inion 18. This segment disengages the pinion 44 before the gear 15 reengages the pinion 18; consequently the rotation of the pinion 44 is intermittent and takes time when the cross 23 is not oscillated. The gear 46 carries a toothed segment 48 on its upper surface which comes in mesh with a toothed sector 49 constrained to rotate with a. shaft 50 bearing on the platform 11. The shaft 50 shafts 54 through the medium of miter gears 56; therefore the rocking-movement given to the crank 53 is transmitted to the rocking shafts 54 and 55. A spring 57 is provided for restoring the sector 49 to its f-normal position, and therewith the rocking shafts. Each rocking shaft carries arms 58 to which a pad 59 is attached yieldingly to give when said. pad is forced against a side of a coiiperating brush. A fluid receptacle 60 is provided above each pad. The feed from the receptacle to the pad is normally obstructed by a gasket 61 carried by the pad and displaceable therewith when the pad is forced against a brush and whereby the feed is uncovered and the liquid will flow from the receptacle on to the surface of the pad. Each brush is revolved in its corresponding bracket 28 by a series of miter gears 62 through the medium of a pinion 63 rigid with one of the miter gears and mounted to rotate on the pin 29 (see Fig. 7). The pinion 63 is engaged intermittently by a toothed sector 64 extending from a stem 65 rising from'the correspondinggear 39. The sector is so located on the gear 39 that it meshes with its pinion 63 after the roller 36 has'engaged the cam 35 and displaced the slide to clear the brush from a shoe occupying the foot-rest 27. Therefore the brushes are turned at the moment they are farthest away from the foot-rest 27 and slightly before the rollers 36 leave the cams and allow the springs 30 to pull the slides and, therefore, the brushes against the shoe occupying the foot-rest.

The operation of the machine 1s as follows:

The motor 13 may be controlled by a longitudinally operable switch or some coincontrolled mechanism. The control isso arran ed that the machine always stops with the rushes remote from the foot-rest 27 to allow the introduction of a shoe upon the foot-rest. The brushes 31 at the starting of the machine present the dust-cleanin surface 66 thereof to engage a shoe place upon the foot rest. When the machine starts the segment 47 meshes with the pinion 44 so as to be ready to disengage the rollers 36 from the cams 35 of the slides 24. A slight displacement of the gear 14 by-the motor disengages the rollers 36 from the cams 35 and allows the springs 30 to move the slide 24 into the cross and, therefore, bring the surface 66 of the brush in contact with the shoe upon the foot-rest 27.

As the se ent 47 leaves the pinion 44 the toothed periphery of the gear 15 comes into naaopse engagement with thepinion 1"8, setting'the cross into oscillation and causing the sur- I face 66- of the brush to clean the shoe engaged thereby. As the segment 47..cemes again into engagement with the pinion 44 the rollers 36 are brought into engagement operative relation with the shoe, the engagement between the sector 64 and the pinion 63 being long enough to turn the miter gears through one-third of a revolution. shaft of each brush 31 carries a grooved collar 72 which has three notches adapted to be engaged by a spring-actuated plunger 73 carried by the bracket 28 on the side thereof. This plunger locks the brush yieldingly to the bracket.

As the rollers 36 leave the cam 35 the springs 30 return the brushes against the shoe, the toothed sectors 47 being disengaged from the pinion 44. The toothed periphery of the gear 15 comes into engagement with the pinion 18, setting the cross into vibration. During the engagement of the gear 15 with the pinion the surface 67 of the brushes will apply blacking to the shoe. In further engagement of the segment with the pinion 44, the brushes are again withdrawn by the engagement of the rollers with the cams. The arms 58 will not be operated in view of the fact that the toothed segment passes beyond the sector, the gear 46 being in such a ratio with the pinion 44 that it revolves once for three revolutions of the pinion. The brushes will be revolved again to bring the polishing surface 68 in coiiperative relation with'the shoe, the slides will be again released by the disengagement of the rollers with the. cams, and the cross set into vibration by the engagement of the gear with the pinion 18.

The car 42 is in mesh with a gear 69 which 1s displaced each time the gear 42 is displaced by the pinion 43; and the ratio between the gears is such that for three revolutions of the pinion 43' the gear 69 makes a half revolution. The gear 69 carries diametrically opposite members 70 adapted to actuate an annunciator 71 every time said gear is revolved through a half revolution.

After the gear 15 leaves the pinion 18 the segment 47 engages the pinion 44 to bring the brushes away from the shoes and with the cam 35, forcing the slides out. The

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revolve said brushes to bring the surface 66 of the brushes in cooperative relatlon with the foot rest 27. At the moment when this takes place the member 7 0 on the gear 69 operates the annunciato'r 71 and notifies that another shoe is to be introduced. The operation continues in the manner described until another shoe is cleaned, when the machine stops with the dust-cleaning surfaces 66 of the brushes disposed in inoperative relation to the foot-rest 27 and spaced therefrom to admit a shoe.

I claim:

1. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a foot rest, a brush frame mounted to oscillate in a horizontal plane, and brushes carried by the frame and mounted to oscillate on a vertical axis.

2. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a brush frame mounted to oscillate in a horizontal plane, slides reciprocating in the frame, and a brush carried by each slide and mounted to oscillate on said slide on a vertical axis.

3. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a frame mounted to oscillate in a horizontal plane, slides mounted to reciprocate in the frame in a plane parallel to the plane of oscillation, a brush carried by each slide and mounted to oscillate on a vertical axis, and yielding means for resisting the oscillation of the brush and adapted to move the slides into'the frame.

4. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a foot rest, a frame mounted to oscillate in a horizontal plane, slides reciprocating in the frame in a plane parallel to the plane of oscillation, a brush carrier associated with each slide and mounted to oscillate thereupon on a vertical axis, yielding means connecting the brush carrier to the frame for resisting the oscillating movement thereof and to move the slide into the frame, a brush revolubly mounted in each of the carriers, and means for yieldingly locking the brush to the carrier to prevent the turning thereof.

5. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a foot rest, a frame mounted to oscillate in a horizontal plane, slides mounted to reciprocate in the frame in a plane parallel to the plane in which the frame oscillates, a brush carrier secured to each slide to oscillate on a vertical axis, yielding means from the carrier to the frame to resist the oscillating movement of the carrier and to draw the slide into the frame, means for oscillating the frame intermittently, means for forcing the slides out of the frame against the resistance of the yielding means when the frame stops, a multisurfaced brush revolubly mounted in each carrier, means for yieldingly locking the brush to the carrier, an means for revolving thecbrush in the carrier after the slide has been. forced out from the frame to present a different surface of the brush in operative relation to the foot rest, said means for forcing the slides out of the frame adapted to release the same before the frame begins to oscillate.

6.In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a foot rest, a brush carrier mounted to oscillate on a vertical axis and reciprocate to and from the foot rest, yielding means normally arresting the oscillating movement of the carrier and the movement thereof from the foot rest, a triangularshaped brush revolubly mounted in the, carrier, means for yieldingly locking the brush to the carrier, means for intermittently displacing the carrier from the foot rest, and means for revolving the brush through a predetermined angular distance when the carrier is displaced to present a different surface in cooperative relation to the foot rest, said means for displacing the carrier intermittently adapted to release the same after the brush has been revolved.

7. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a foot rest, a frame mounted to oscillate in a horizontal plane, slides mounted to reciprocate in the frame parallel to the plane of oscillation, a brush carried on each slide mounted to oscillate on a vertical 95 axis, yielding means connecting the carrier to the frame to arrest the oscillating movement of the carrier and'to draw the slide into the frame, a triangular-shaped brush revolubly mounted in each carrier, means 100 for yieldingly locking the brush to the carrier to retain any surface of the brush in operative relation to the foot rest, means for oscillating the frame intermittently, means for drawing the slides out of the 105 frame when the frame is not oscillated, means for supplying one side of 'each brush with blacking, means for operating said blacking supply means when said side of the brush is brought in close proximity thereto by the displacement of the slides, and means for revolving the brushes through a predetermined angular displacement against the resistance of the yielding locking means to bring the surfaces supplied with the blacking in operative relation with the foot rest, said means for drawing the slides adapted to release the same after the brushes have been revolved and before said frame begins to oscillate.

8. In a shoe-polishing machine, a gear having a portion of its toothed periphery cut away, means for revolving the gear continuously, a brush frame mounted to oscillate in a horizontal plane, motion-transmission 1 5 means from the toothed periphery of the gear to the frame for oscillating the same,

a toothed segment connected to the car, a brush carrier mounted to move ho ily to and from the frame and oscillate on a verthereof, a multisurfaced,brushmounted to revolve in the carrier'on an axis transverse to the bodily movement of the carrier, motion-transmission means from the brush to the motion-transmission means vfor the bodily displacement of the carrier for revolving the brush through a predetermined angular distance, and means for locking yieldingly the brush to the carrier.

9. In a shoe-polishing machine, a stationary shaft, afoot rest carried thereby, a-

brush frame free to revolve on the shaft, a gear having a portion of its toothed periphery cut away mounted to revolve-on said shaft, means for revolving the gear continuously, motion-transmission means from the toothed periphery of the gear to the frame for oscillating the same upon the shaft, a toothed segment connected to the gear, brushes on said frame, and motion-transmission means from the toothed segment to said brushes for revolving and bodily movement of the brushes and becoming operative when the frame is inoperative.

10. In a shoe-polishing machine, a vertical, stationary shaft, a foot rest carried by the shaft, a brush frame mounted to oscillate on the shaft, a gear having a portion of its toothed periphery cut away revolubly mounted on said shaft, means for revolving the gear, a crank shaft, a connecting rod from the crank shaft to the brush frame, motion-transmission means from the toothed periphery of the gear to the crank shaft for revolving the same, brushes on the frame, a toothed segment connected to the gear, and motion-transmission means from the segment to the brushes for revolving and bodily movement of the brushes becoming operative when the frame is inoperative.

11. Ina shoe-polishing machine, a foot rest, a brush frame, a gear having a portion of its toothed periphery cut away, means for revolving the gear continuously, motion-transmission means from the toothed periphery of the gear to the frame'for oscillating the same, a toothed segment constrained to rotate with the gear, slides in said frame, means for moving the slides out of the frame, resilient means for resisting the movement of the slides out of the frame, a multisurfaced brush revolubly mounted on each slide, means for revolving the brush through a predetermined angular distance, rendered operable after a predetermined displacement of the slide, and motion-transthe other vertical axis, means for displacing the brush bodily against the resistance of the yielding means when the brush stops oscillating, an arm mounted to rock, a yielding pad carried by the. arm, means for rocking the arm to bring the pad into engagement with the brush surface, motion-transmission means for displacing the brush bodily to the arm, means for revolving the brush throu h a predetermined angular dis placement ecoming operative after the bodily displacement of the brush, and means for yieldingly locking the brush against rotation.

13; In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a foot rest, a frame mounted to oscillate about the foot rest, a brush carrier mounted to move bodily on the frame to and from the foot rest and to oscillate in a vertical axis, and means for resisting the bodily movement of the carrier from the foot rest, also adapted to resist the oscillatory movement of the carrier.

14. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a foot rest, a brush frame mounted to oscillate about the foot rest, and revoluble brushes carried by the frame and mounted to move bodily on the frame to and from the foot rest and to oscillate on a sub stantially vertical axis.

15. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a foot rest, a brush frame mounted to oscillate in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the foot rest, brushes mounted to revolve on the frame and to move to and from the foot rest, said brushes being also mounted to oscillate on the frame on a substantially vertical axis, and yielding means for moving the brushes toward the foot rest and for resisting their oscillatory movement.

16. In a shoeolishin machine, a brush mounted to osci late bodily about two independent vertical axes, means for oscillating the brush, and means for revolving the brush on its own axis becoming operable when the oscillatory movement of the brush is arrested.

17. In a shoe-polishing machine, a stationary shaft, a foot rest thereon, a brush frame free to revolve on the shaft means for oscillating the frame on the shaft, slides in the frame mounted to move to and from the foot rest, a brush carrier on each slide free to revolve on a vertical axis yielding means connecting the carrier to the frame whereby the carrier is prevented from oscillation on its vertical axis and the slide is normally moved toward; the foot rest, a brush revolubly mounted on the carrier, and means for moving the slides intermittently from the foot rest against the resistance of the springs, becoming operable when the oscillatory movement of the frame is arrested, means for revolving the brushes becoming operative after the slides have been moved by said slide-operating means.

18. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a multi-surfaced brush mounted to revolve about its oWn axis and to oscillate bodily about two independent'vertical axes, means for oscillating the brush intermittently about one of the vertical axes, yielding means for resisting the oscillation of the brush about the other of the vertical axes, and means for revolving the brush through a predetermined angular distance when not oscillated for presenting operatively another surface of the brush.

19. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a multi-surfaced brush mounted to revolve on its own axis and oscillate about two independent vertical axes, means for 05- cillating the brush about one of the vertical axes, means for revolving the brush through a predetermined angular distance when the brush is not oscillated, and yielding means for locking the brush in the displaced position.

20. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a multi-surfaced brush mounted to revolve on its own axis and to reciprocate bodily transversely of its axis, said brush being mounted to oscillate bodily about two independent vertical axes, yielding means preventing the oscillation of the brush about one of its vertical axes, means for intermittently oscillating the brush about the other of said vertical axes, means for moving the brush bodily against the resistance of the yielding means when the brush is not actuated by the means for intermittent oscillation, means for revolving the brush through a predetermined angular distance adapted to become operative after the brush has been moved bodily, whereby another surface of the brush is disposed operatively, and means for supplying shoepolishing material to the brush adapted to engage the brush after a predetermined angular displacement of said brush.

21. In a shoe-polishing machine, the combination of a triangular-shaped brushmounted to rotate on its own axis, move bodily transversely of the axis, and oscillate bodily about two independent vertical axes; yielding means for resisting the oscillation of the brush about one of its vertical axes; means for oscillating the brush intermittently about the other of the vertical axes; means for displacing the brush bodily against resistance of the yielding means when the brush is not oscillated by said means for oscillating the brush intermittently; means for supplying one side of the 'brush with shoe-polishing material after the brush has been displaced bodily; means for revolvin the brush through an angle of substantlally 120, becoming operative after the bodily displacement of the brush; and means for yieldingly locking the brush against rotation, said means for bodily displacing the brush adapted to release the same after the brush has been revolved.

WILLIAM C. SOHADE. [1,. s.] 

